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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] i965 (Valley View) video acceleration
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 19:19:57
Message-Id: CAN0CFw3JgaK0RMPeav-5RbGq-3POTOne1x+t7R-_PCFJCFPFgg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] i965 (Valley View) video acceleration by Grant
1 >>>> No luck. Weird. It's working in xbmc so I can't be far off. What
2 >>>> could I be missing?
3 >>>>
4 >>>
5 >>> Sorry I've been crazy busy. I hope tomorrow I'll have some time to power
6 >>> up the NUC and check some settings.
7 >>>
8 >>> I'll get the USE flags and my /etc/portage/package.use if I have one,
9 >>> the profile I'm using and perhaps some versions of software I have
10 >>> installed.
11 >>
12 >>
13 >> It turns out xbmc and vlc support both vdpau and vaapi. mplayer
14 >> supports vdpau and also vaapi via libvdpau-va-gl (x11 overlay). I
15 >> haven't installed mplayer2 but it sounds like it supports vaapi. Are
16 >> all the smart people switching from mplayer to mplayer2? For me: xbmc
17 >> accelerates, vlc does not, mplayer claims it's accelerating via vdpau
18 >> in the console output but all I get is a black window. Have you tried
19 >> vlc?
20 >
21 >
22 > Just got mplayer accelerating. I needed to upgrade from
23 > libvdpau-va-gl-0.3.4 to libvdpau-va-gl-9999. vlc is still a mystery.
24
25
26 I got vlc accelerating by upgrading from libva-intel-driver-1.3.0 to
27 1.3.2 and launching vlc like this:
28
29 $ vlc --avcodev-hw=vaapi
30
31 - Grant